· Private foundation
Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $154k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY | $53,678 |
| CAMP EVERGREEN - AQUATIC FACILITY | $50,000 |
| A MILLION DREAMZ INC | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC | $30,000 |
| ABOVE & BEYOND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| REINS INC - BLDG PURCHASE & PROGRAM EXPANSION | $25,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK | $20,000 |
| SHEBOYGAN COUNTY CYCLING | $15,000 |
| 1907 CLUB INC | $10,000 |
| NOURISH FARMS INC | $10,000 |
| LAKELAND UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $10,000 |
| LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE (LCHC) | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY | $10,000 |
| ELEVATE INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- AMA MILLION DREAMZ INC4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +268%
- SCSHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +262%
- LCLAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $152k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- SNST NICHOLAS HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $25k
- WRWI RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANZIATION INCone grant, 2021 · $8k
- WRWI RECOVERY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2022 · $8k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Promote sheboygan county business development.
We will stirve to make a significant difference in improving the quality of life of our members and the communities we serve by providing affordable access to credit and financial services.
The organization is a cooperative, nonprofit corporation, incorporated under wisconsin state law to encourage thrift among its members, create a source of credit at a fair and reasonable cost, and provide an opportunity for its members to…
Our mission is to provide efficient, progressive financial services and products to our owner-members in agreement with credit union philosophy
To be a catalyst for economic and community progress within the great lakes bay region.
The college of wooster is a community of independent minds, working together to prepare students to become leaders of character and influence in an interdependent global community. (continued on schedule o)we engage motivated students in a…
The mission of lake country academy is to be a recognized leader in education through direct instruction and core knowledge within an environment that emphasizes core values.
To promote conditions favorable to job creation and business success in michigan.
Big brothers big sisters creates and supports one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide and operate a retirement home, health care center, and related services in the greater sheboygan area for elderly and physically handicapped adults, which shall enhance, honor and preserve the dignity of the individual, and…
The door county land trust is a local, non-governmental non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve door county's exceptional lands and waters forever.
To protect, conserve, and enhance wisconsin's natural resources by advocating for and supporting county conservation efforts, for current and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sheboygan County Young Men's Christian Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 111 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JOHN MICHAEL KOHLER ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION DREAMZ INC ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LAKESHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds REINS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOOKWORM GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREEN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CAMP ANOKIJIG INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Sheboygan County YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LAKESIDE INC ↗
- Who funds SHEBOYGAN COUNTY HISTORICAL RESEARCH CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds GLACIAL LAKES CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Dogs to Dog Tags Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE BROUGHTON ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Frank G & Frieda K Brotz Family Foundation Inc · Green Bay Packers Foundation · Alliant Energy Foundation Inc · Kohler Foundation Inc · Hayssen Family Foundation Inc · Garton Family Foundation · Lakeshore Community Foundation Inc · Ruth St John & John Dunham West Foundation Inc · The Zieve Foundation · Catharine B Stayer Family Foundation Inc · Terry Kohler Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Sheboygan County Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Fk Bemis Family Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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